The Department of Screen Arts & Cultures' undergraduate major provides students with high quality instruction in the history, theory, and creative production of moving image media in its historical and emergent forms. Creative practice in the field, broadly conceived, is a crucial component of students' understanding of media and of the marketability of their knowledge post-graduation.

The Screen Arts and Cultures curriculum provides an integrated course of study in the history, aesthetics, theory, and techniques of moving image media. Emphasis is placed on a liberal arts approach that provides students with a solid foundation for understanding how film and electronic-based visual media arise out of varied cultural, historical, social, and technological circumstances.

Screen Studies
Screen Studies courses advance the knowledge and understanding of all forms of moving image media, from film, television, and video to emergent digital forms. Courses stress the importance of understanding international or global contexts.

Production
Courses cover a variety of genres and production approaches, including dramatic narrative, documentary, digital animation, and experimental media.

SAC 290, 300, 301, 302, 304, 306, 400, 401, 402, 404, 405, 406, 423.

Screenwriting
SAC 210 (pre-req) 310, 410, 423, 427.

Television Writing
SAC 311, 411.

Screen Arts and Cultures (SAC) Waitlist Policy:

Students who wish to obtain an override, must get permission
from the instructor of the course.

Screen Arts and Cultures (SAC) majors will be given
preference on the waitlist over non-SAC students.

Waitlist priority will be at the discretion of the instructor.

Once a permission is issued, students will have three business days to register for the course. If a student does not use the class permission before it expires, the next student chosen by the instructor will be given permission.

It is critical that students attend classes from the beginning of the term. The department may drop a student from a course if the student does not attend the first course meeting. If a student plans to miss the first course meeting, arrangements must be APPROVED by the instructor in ADVANCE.